TY - JOUR
T1 - First case of mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Bairnsdale or Buruli ulcer) acquired in New South Wales
AU - Lavender, Caroline J
AU - Senanayake, Sanjaya N
AU - Fyfe, Janet A M
AU - Buntine, John A
AU - Globan, Maria
AU - Stinear, Timothy Paul
AU - Hayman, John
AU - Johnson, Paul D R
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing environmental bacterium that causes Buruli ulcer (also known as Bairnsdale ulcer in Victoria and Daintree ulcer in northern Queensland). We describe two patients with laboratory-confirmed Buruli ulcer who were infected either in New South Wales or overseas. A molecular epidemiological investigation demonstrated that, while one case was probably acquired in Papua New Guinea, the other was most likely to have been acquired in southern NSW. To our knowledge, this is the first case of M. ulcerans infection acquired in NSW.
AB - Mycobacterium ulcerans is a slow-growing environmental bacterium that causes Buruli ulcer (also known as Bairnsdale ulcer in Victoria and Daintree ulcer in northern Queensland). We describe two patients with laboratory-confirmed Buruli ulcer who were infected either in New South Wales or overseas. A molecular epidemiological investigation demonstrated that, while one case was probably acquired in Papua New Guinea, the other was most likely to have been acquired in southern NSW. To our knowledge, this is the first case of M. ulcerans infection acquired in NSW.
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17223764
M3 - Article
SN - 0025-729X
VL - 186
SP - 62
EP - 63
JO - The Medical Journal of Australia
JF - The Medical Journal of Australia
IS - 2
ER -